page_title: Paul, Cornwall
section_title: Cornish language (memorials)
hierarchical_section_title: Paul, Cornwall / History / Cornish language (memorials)
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument to Dolly Pentreath Died in 1777 at the age of 102 and said to be the last person to converse solely in the ancient Cornish language.
context_page_description: Paul is a village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is in the civil parish of Penzance. The village is two miles south of Penzance and one mile south of Newlyn.
  The village of Paul should not be confused with the civil parish of Paul, which lies west of the village and, since 1934 with the reorganisation of local government, does not include the village of Paul.
  Like many Cornish communities Paul has its own community celebration. Paul Feast is held on the Sunday nearest 10 October every year when the village is decorated and a civic service takes place on the Sunday of the feast itself led by the Mayor of Penzance.
context_section_description: Within the village churchyard there is a memorial to Dolly Pentreath, reputedly and disputedly the last native speaker of Cornish. This memorial was placed there by Louis Lucien Bonaparte, a relative of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Vicar of Paul in the 19th century.
  The Cornish language writers Nicholas Boson, Thomas Boson and John Boson are all buried in Paul Churchyard, and a monument in the church by John Boson (to Arthur Hutchens, d. 1709) is the only surviving lapidary inscription in traditional Cornish.
caption: The monument to Dolly Pentreath
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